Chalnoth, you might find this funny

[Kruno]

1*10^-6 is a very big number IMO.

/me recals memory back in physics class last year:

Me: Sir, how come I only have half a mark for this question?

Physics teacher: You telling me 1*10-6 is a big number?

Me: Yes, I think it's big.

Keith: Imagine how small your "coke" is.

Physics teacher: Exactly, you took the words right out of my mouth.

Me: But it is a big number for the wavelength of light (refers to question).

Physics teacher: Give yourself the full mark. But please don't say that 1*10^-6 is a big number.

(this was the EXACT conversation without all the other smartass remarks in the background from Dale etc...)

Only had 6 people in total for the physics class. Not many people would go near such a subject.
Best class ever IMO. :)

[Chalnoth]

Yeah, I did think that was funny :)

Reminds me of a number of numerical errors that I've seen in grading Physics papers over the past year. The most blatant example that I can recall was in the frequency calculation for a photon. I forget the exact calculation, but a few students managed to get photons that had wavelengths of the order of millions of lightyears. I was laughing quite hard grading those papers....

[Kruno]

LMFAO!!! Maybe you can grade my papers? :)
I seem to be the intergalactic mathematician in the school. :D